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In light of this, SES hired space situational awareness company ExoAnalytic Solutions to monitor the drifting debris from the equipment.

ExoAnalytic's CEO, Doug Hendrix, told ArsTechnica: "We have seen several pieces come off of it over the past several days.

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It is unclear what caused the "anomaly"

"We are tracking at least one of the pieces. I would hesitate to say we know for sure what happened.”

While it is expected that any pieces that do fall to Earth will simply burn up when re-entering the atmosphere, the real worry is that it adds to the already congested space of the thousands of pieces of space junk in the planet’s orbit.